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Sites of the uncanny : Paul Celan, specularity and the visual arts / Eric Kligerman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kligerman, Eric.
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 3.
- Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Celan, Paul--Influence.
- Celan, Paul.
- Popular culture--Germany.
- Popular culture.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts.
- Collective memory--Germany.
- Collective memory.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Germany.
- Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Facing the Holocaust 1
- Positioning the Spectator 1
- Empathic Imagination: Identification and the Other 6
- "All Poets are Yids": Translating the Holocaust 10
- Poetry as Flaschenpost 17
- A New Category: the Holocaustal Uncanny 23
- Chapter 1 Specular Disruptions-The Sublime, the Uncanny, and Empathic Identification 31
- Elements of Kant's Sublime: Subreption, Negative Presentation and Shudder 34
- "To see a hundred corpses lie side by side, or five hundred or a thousand..." 37
- Friedlander and the Historian's Unease 42
- Haidu and the "strangely familiar" of Himmler's Posen Speech 46
- Dominick LaCapra: Empathic Unsettlement and Compulsive Repetition 49
- Crossing from the Sublime into Trauma: The Holocaustal Uncanny 55
- The Uncanny Ethics of Levinas and Celan 62
- Chapter 2 Catastrophe and the Uncanny in Heidegger's Fetishized Narrative 74
- A Missed Encounter: Heidegger and Celan 74
- Heidegger and Narrative Fetishism 79
- Fear and Anxiety in Heidegger's Being and Time 84
- Antigone: The Uncanny, History, and Loss of the Ethical 88
- Memorial Address 95
- Chapter 3 Broken Meridians-From Heidegger's Pathway to Celan's Judengasse 104
- Bremen's Ghost 105
- Freud's Uncanny: Doubles, Repetitions, Ghosts, Blindings and the Medusa's Head 113
- Following the Path of Art: Poetry and the Uncanny 116
- Translations: The Ethics of an Encounter 122
- Departing From Heidegger's Feldweg 127
- Mourning and Translation 132
- Chapter 4 Celan's Cinematic-Anxiety of the Gaze in Nuit et Brouillard and "Engfuhrung" 138
- Resnais and the Visual Arts 146
- Celan and the Visual Arts 151
- Van Gogh's Cornfield with Crows: Crossing Film and Poetry 154
- "Beide Welten": Inside the Camps 158
- The Face and the Trace 164
- Going into the Narrows: Celan's "Engfuhrung" 172
- Chapter 5 Re-figuring Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer 187
- Textual Mourning for Celan In Bachmann's Malina 187
- The Return of Paul Celan 195
- Kiefer's Reception in Germany 199
- Kiefer's Act of Decathexis: Lost Objects and Landscapes 202
- Remembering Celan, Remembering the Holocaust 209
- Coda: Lichtzwang 227
- Chapter 6 Ghostly Demarcations-Translating Paul Celan's Poetics in Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Space 233
- Trauma and the Forming of Cultural Identity 233
- Translating Anxiety into Architecture 239
- Entering The Jewish Museum in Berlin 244
- Inscribing the Void in Architecture 250
- Void and Breathturn 255
- Architectural Melancholia 268
- Cartography and Ruins 275
- Conclusion: Mnemosyne and the Ruins of History 290
- Paul Celan in Tubingen 290
- Martin Walser in Frankfurt 296.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110191356
- 3110191350
- OCLC:
- 141855226
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